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The key art for Consume Me, with an overlaid badge with salmon pink text framed by light blue laurels honoring it as VGG's 2025 Game of the Year winner. The game title and main character Jenny sit inside a red oval with a yellow border. Jenny is a teen girl drawn in a cute chibi style, and she winks and holds a big piece of toast in both hands. Behind the title there's a darkened, slightly obscured background with Jenny's face inside various fruits and berries.

ANNOUNCING: Consume Me is Video Games are Good's 2025 Game of the Year

Congratulations to Consume Me, VGG's 2025 Game of the Year winner. Equal parts strategic, chaotic, funny, hopeful, and tear-jerking, its ingredients come together to make something well-balanced and soul-nourishing that we were grateful we got the chance to consume.

Nate and Julie

7 days ago6 min read

An in-game screenshot of Consume Me. A teen girl sits at the dinner table, looking nervously down at a plate and oddly shaped blocks of food. A ham is a cube with a small one block addendum. A steak is shaped like a T. A corncob is a line. They align on the plate, covering various parts of the plate. A conveyor belt on the bottom shows incoming food blocks: a cookie and egg as small three-block L-shapes and a cubic piece of watermelon. A dog hovers to the right, hoping to be fed something off the conveyor.

REVIEW: Authenticity, charm, and empathy make Consume Me one of 2025's best

As advertised: It did consume me.

Nate Hermanson

Sep 248 min read

ANNOUNCING: Consume Me is Video Games are Good's 2025 Game of the Year

REVIEW: Authenticity, charm, and empathy make Consume Me one of 2025's best

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